Tsar

Overview

In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last Judgment approaching. He establishes absolute power, cruelly destroying anyone who gets in his way. During this reign of terror, Philip, the superior of the monastery on the Solovetsky Islands, a great scholar and Ivan's close friend, dares to oppose the sovereign's mystical tyranny. What follows is a clash between two completely opposite visions of the world, smashing morality and justice, God and men. A grand-scale film with excellent leading roles by Mamonov and Yankovsky. An allegory of Stalinist Russia

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 4, 2009

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Russia

Production

Profit,Studio Pavla Lungina

Cast

Sergey Garmash,Федор Старых,Svetlana Zhilenko,Oleg Surnov,Oleg Sokolov,Aleksandr Lobanov,Anastasiya Dontsova,Maxim Zamorin,Artyom Mazunov,Aleksandr Ilyin Jrand 19 more

Director

Pavel Lungin

Writer

Pavel Lungin,Aleksei Ivanov

Producer

Pavel Lungin,Olga Vasilyeva,Vasily Bernhardt

Cinematography

Tom Stern

Music

Yuri Krasavin

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt1424431